Director, Product & Strategy

It’s Time For A Change…

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent Health has a bold mission to change the health of the nation by changing the way health care is delivered. Our pursuit of this mission is the driving force that brings us to work each day. We believe in embracing new ideas, challenging ourselves and failing forward. We respect and celebrate individual talents and team wins. We have fun while working hard and Evolenteers often make a difference in everything from scrubs to jeans.

Are we growing? Absolutely – about 40% in year-over-year revenue growth in 2018. Are we recognized? Definitely. We have been named one of “Becker’s 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare” in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, and one of the “50 Great Places to Work” in 2017 by Washingtonian. We recognize employees that live our values, give back to our communities each year, and are champions for bringing our whole selves to work each day. If you’re looking for a place where your work can be personally and professionally rewarding, don’t just join a company with a mission. Join a mission with a company behind it.

New Century Health merged with Evolent Health in 2018 and continues to lead transformative change in specialty care management as an Evolent company. Within the Evolent ecosystem of provider-centric solutions for value-based care, our New Century Health team focuses on cost and quality improvement for oncology and cardiology specialty care. With more than 15 years of proven results, New Century Health generates insights and drives cutting edge innovation through its clinical capabilities and deep understanding of health care informatics, physician management and health care technology systems development. Together, Evolent and New Century Health are harnessing the power of our combined organizations to improve the health of the nation. Join the New Century Health team and put your passion to work for transforming the U.S. health care landscape for patients, providers and payers.

Role in Brief:

New Century Health is recruiting a Director to join as a member of its Product & Strategy team. The Product & Strategy team is responsible for the company’s overall strategy, the development and launch of new solutions that support the strategy, and the medium to long-term product roadmap. The group partners heavily with internal cross-functional teams in company strategy and solution development, and is directly market-facing in driving the launch of new solutions. This position offers a unique opportunity for a “strategic operator” who wants to drive meaningful innovation and impact. This individual will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Product & Strategy with strong preference for candidates based in Washington, D.C., Brea, CA, Philadelphia, or New York City.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Helping to define and execute the company’s overall growth strategy –

• Identify potential growth opportunities, including but not limited to exploration of new products, new clinical areas, and new market segments
• Conduct primary analyses to guide Exec Team decision-making on the most attractive opportunities to accelerate growth and/or improve clinical performance
• Assess competitive landscape and pressures
• Expand the firm’s knowledge base in emerging and adjacent terrains
• Support business development and strategic accounts in pursuing non-standard deals that require product innovation

Optimizing existing solutions –

• Investigate, test, and help design and deploy new solution elements, everything from new physician contracting models to clinical AI
• Create streamlined external communication of our solutions to improve client understanding of capabilities and our unique value proposition

Driving the research, development, and launch of new product or partnership opportunities –

• For most attractive growth opportunities, assess value of build/buy/partner
• Define potential product concepts and lead customer testing
• Develop pro-forma analyses and coordinate internal decision-making
• Collaborate with engineering and operations to develop and deploy
• Support M&A screening and due diligence accountability for actionable targets
• Evaluate potential for alliances and channel partnerships to support growth

The Experience You’ll Need (Required):

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Previous experience with payer/provider/healthcare sector
• 5+ years’ experience in either a management consulting, product innovation or growth-oriented/entrepreneurial role

Finishing Touches (Preferred):

• Demonstrated problem-solving abilities and creativity
• Proven ability to boil down market findings into relevant product insights
• Ability to effectively engage individuals of all levels (both internal and external)
• Drive to get stuff done
• Commercial product experience
• Exemplary written and oral communications skills
• Demonstrated leadership experience

Evolent Health is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants equally without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.